Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

64 reviews

genericvampire's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

The most disappointing book of the Twilight Saga. We deserved better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

I hate that Stephanie Meyer had to push her Mormon ideals onto this book series. I mean it was there since the beginning but in Breaking Dawn is when it really goes off the rails.

jjpope's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Infertility, and Murder

Minor: Abortion

cdelmage24's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I loved the entire series and i would recommend it. The book overall could have been a little bit better, especially the ending spoiler>The battle scene was meh and I wanted to know what happened with Renesmee and Jacob later on. If you loved the other books you'll probably love this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

lizziaha's review against another edition

3.0

This book is definitely a guilty pleasure for me. I enjoy reading it but it is ultimately so deeply problematic that it’s hard to stay in the story. Aside from Meyer’s regular racism involving the Quileutes (quite literally insinuating that POC are animals) and her drastic white-washing of every single vampire character, there were other problems.

The way Meyer handles Bella’s pregnancy carries deeply anti-abortion sentiments—with the people trying to prioritize Bella’s life being framed as the antagonists. Additionally, solving the love triangle by making Jacob fall in love with a child?? I know that Meyer tries to pretend like it’s not like that but it’s truly insane in my opinion. And with jacob’s perspective we get a healthy dose of misogyny and just a sprinkle of homophobia, so that’s unfortunate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Racism, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, and Misogyny

Minor: Homophobia